I don't Own Digimon.
And the Enemy Was Me
Spoiler Warning: This warning is put here for those who are currently reading Fall of Harmony, This chapter includes a relatively detailed synopsis of how the villain of the previously mentioned story is defeated. If you do not want to have Fall of Harmony spoiled for you, you shouldn't read this chapter. I will give a short summary of what happens in the next chapter to those who wish to read on with this story, the summary will neglect the full explanation that is within this chapter, if you wish to later come back and read this chapter feel free, but this is a warning and please do not spoil Fall of Harmony for others in the reviews of this story and or the other. Thank you.
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Lucemon's fist crashed against the horns of the goat. The angel dropped back and the goat charged. The angel caught the curve of the horns in the gut and was sent flying backwards.
"So who are we going to help?" Penguinmon asked as she watched the two of them fight. Lucemon caught a blast to the face and the goat was sent skittering by a Divine Feat.
Lucemon took to the air but the goat fired a blast striking one of the angel's wings and he dropped onto one of the stores' cloth awnings. He used the awning's springiness to dive forward.
The goat growled and lifted its head. The bell on its collar lifted. "Holy Bell!" a wave of sound shot from the instrument Lucemon was froze in place. The goat charged forward ramming his horns into the angel and sent Lucemon spiraling against a building. The goat galloped forward after the angel.
"I can't move…" grumbled Otamamon as he struggled.
"Neither can I…" hissed Tapirmon under his breath.
"Now, you will never dim this world, Lucemon!" shouted the goat as it shot forward with the points of its horns charging towards the stumbling angel.
"NO!" Mark slid in front of Lucemon. His hands were spread out. "You will not hurt him anymore! I won't let you hurt my partner!"
The goat slid to a stop, "Human, stand aside, you do not know what is at stake. Now move and let me destroy this beast!"
"He's not a beast!" retorted Mark loudly. The boy's eyes were narrowed. "He's my friend and I refuse to let you kill him! I'm never leaving his side. Kill me if you must, but you won't go anywhere near him without getting through me! I believe in him, and he believes in me and nothing will change that!"
Lucemon stumbled forward and grasped Mark's shoulder. Mark looked at his companion. The purple streaks were pulsing on his cheeks. "Mark…." The angel's eyes lowered heavily over his eyes. He struggled to keep them open. "You are the only one that ever believed in me…the others still have doubts but you wouldn't listen, you are still risking your being to protect me…I have to do the same for you…"
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"I refuse to let you keep possession!" shouted the young unmarked boy. He was in a dark void.
"Ha!" shouted a red glowing angel as he looked back. "I have finally complete control. That virus opened the gate from the dark sphere, but that blast from Angemon really helped me out! I'm in control now, nothing will stop me…not you. It's a second chance, and I plan on taking it!"
"He's my friend and I refuse to let you kill him! I'm never leaving his side. Kill me if you must, but you won't go anywhere near him without getting through me! I believe in him, and he believes in me and nothing will change that!" Mark shouted.
"Annoying little monkey isn't he?" asked the red angel quietly. He looked back at the unmarked, white angel.
"Shut it," growled the white angel, "Kage, they will never accept you as their friend, you have no chance!"
"Oh, Kougen," The red angel turned and walked up to the white angel, "I don't plan to befriend them. I'm going to destroy them…"
"NO!" Kougen's hands glowed bright white. "You won't touch them!" Kougen pushed his hands forward. The light raged into Kage, the red angel. Kage fell backwards, rolled and was on his feet again. Kage leapt at the white angel.
The two of them rolled on the ground. Kougen riveted punches into the red angel's sides and face any time there was an opening. Kougen throttled Kage, wrapping his hands around crimson flesh of Kage's neck.
Kougen lifted his head. "Mark…." Kougen took a deep breath. "You are the only one that ever believed in me…the others still have doubts but you wouldn't listen, you are still risking your being to protect me…I have to do the same for you…"
"You won't be getting away that easily!" Kage kicked Kougen off of him and took flight. He drew his hands together.
"No!" Kage pushed forward.
"GRAND CROSS!" the two shouted. One cross of darkness, one cross of light converged. Twisting darkness and light washed through the void.
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Lucemon's eyes twisted. His eyes turned grey and rolled up under his eyelids. The angelic child fell to his knees. Mark held him up.
"Lucemon!" shouted the boy. He struggled with his glasses as he gently put the angel down.
"Human, move at once!" growled the goat. "I, General Ornyxmon, will not be stopped by a human boy!"
Mark laid himself across Lucemon and looked up at the goat defiantly. Mark clasped Lucemon's hands. "No, I won't give up!"
"I am growing weary of this," growled Ornyxmon as the goat chuffed through its nostrils.
"Too bad!" shouted Mark in retort, "I'm not moving!"
"That's not true…" Ornyxmon nodded forward. Suddenly a group of digimon was at Mark trying to pry him from Lucemon.
"No!" Mark dug his fingers into the angel's robes. "Someone help me! Lucemon wake up!"
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"Someone help me! Lucemon wake up!" Kougen's eyes flickered open. He rose slowly; on the far side of the void was his crimson counterpart. The red angel was still unconscious. Kougen scrambled to his feet and quickly ensnared the crimson angel in a bubble. He smiled quietly
"Now you'll see how it feels to be all caged up," Kougen said as he dispelled the bubble and the dark angel to the mists of his mind.
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"Get off of me!" shouted Mark as the Gazimon grasped at him and pulled. Lucemon's eyes flashed open.
"Leave my partner be!" commanded the angel loudly. The Gazimon staggered backward Mark sat up in surprise.
"Lucemon?" Mark looked at the angel in surprise.
"I'm fine now…" said Lucemon as he looked up at the goat. "Ornyxmon, why do you wish to destroy me?"
"You are Kage, the destroyer, Lucemon the bane of the light," replied the goat as the bell on its collar lifted again. It rang loudly. The shock wave passed over Lucemon and Mark. The angel stood up. Ornyxmon growled and took a step backwards. "What is this?"
"I am not Kage the destroyer, I am not a Lucemon that is a bane of light, I am Lucemon the Light of Hope!" The angel took a step forward. "I have been reformed, reconfigured and acquitted of the crimes of the past. Those that hold on to those feelings from the past only provide kindling for Kage, the shadow, the shade of the light."
"Does anyone know what the hell anyone is talking about in this damned town!" shouted Jason loudly. Lucemon turned his head quickly to the bell tower of the chapel on the south side of the square.
"Lift your tag up towards the bell tower," demanded Lucemon quietly. He turned his sapphire eyes to Mark. The young boy ran up next to the angel and did as he was asked. The tag glowed soft emerald. Lucemon looked at Mark. "Go, get the crest."
"You will not pass!" shouted Ornyxmon as the goat charged Mark. The boy was running for the chapel. The angel flashed into Ornyxmon's vision and put out his hands and grasped the goat's horns.
"You will not hurt my partner!" shouted Lucemon loudly. The angel grunted and pushed the goat backwards. "Ornyxmon, we don't want to destroy you if you are not evil!"
"Don't toy with me!" growled the goat and the general opened its mouth and fired a burst of light at Lucemon. The angel swept past the attack twisted around and launched his feet into the base of the horns of the goat. Ornyxmon was sent skidding backwards.
"Ornyxmon, listen to me, if I wanted to; I could've destroyed you by now!" shouted Lucemon as he ducked and weaved past blasts of light. The goat growled and narrowed its eyes. Lucemon begged softly from the air, "Please, we just want the crest…"
"You…will taint the work of the crest!" shouted Ornyxmon.
"No, the work is already tainted!" returned Lucemon loudly. "If Assaultmon is allowed to get his gun barrels on the crest, untold numbers will be injured, we must not allow that to happen!"
Ornyxmon looked up in surprise. "I can't trust the angel; can I?" The goat growled and snorted. "Come with me…"
The humans and their digimon blinked in surprise. One of the older humans walked forward. He had a red shirt on and had some sort of cap on. "How can we trust you?"
Ornyxmon stopped, turned its head slightly and snorted, "The same way I can trust that fallen angel, you just will or you won't get anywhere."
The goat continued on its way. The humans were quick to walk after the goat, but none caught up to the general, not even Brendan's curiosity allowed him to get close. They were walking toward the large cathedral that was in the middle of the Missionary, at the southern edge of the square. Ornyxmon pushed through the doors. The humans and digimon followed the goat slowly.
The innards of the cathedral were huge. It was dark and rustic feeling with huge arching ceilings and church style pews. Lucemon looked at the stain glass windows and whispered a quiet apology.
Brendan looked around and finally spoke. "I have a question…" the sound of a voice seemed so unnatural in the presence of overt holiness of the chapel. "What are these images depicting…?" The auburn haired boy asked hesitantly. He pointed to the painting, murals on the ceilings and the windows.
"The battles prior to the Great Reformat…" replied Ornyxmon. The goat looked pointedly at Lucemon and snorted.
"People keep mentioning this Great Reformat…" Jason said quietly. He looked up at Ornyxmon. "What is it?"
"This world, The Digital World, was rebuilt after a massive conflict that spanned both the Human and Digital Worlds," Ornyxmon's eyes did not leave Lucemon. "It was brought about by a very powerful digimon. A digimon who, when he was created was to be the herald of harmony, instead he became the catalyst of chaos." Ornyxmon's voice became rougher. "He wanted to strip both worlds down to their bare bones and rebuild them in a way that he could control every aspect of them!" The children gasped slightly. The goat only snorted in annoyance. The goat turned to the murals and stained glass windows that were the furthest into the chapel. "The digi-destined did everything they could to stop him. They fought him tooth and nail, and only when the holiest of the holy, the Harmonious Ones, appeared did they have the slightest chance." The mural depicted hundreds and hundreds of humans and digimon fighting a gigantic black dragon. There was a circle above the dragon and four regal looking beasts, a tiger, a turtle, a large bird and a large more eastern dragon were shooting something from the circle. "Even then the digi-destined could not truly defeat the evil beast. Only when its counterpart became dispassionate and destroyed itself was the beast capable of being vanquished." The goat snorted angrily. The general locked eyes with Lucemon.
"The dragon at the time was in the human world and the Harmonious Ones hatched a plan to finish the dragon, for you see, the beast held with it a massive amount of a power called Hazard that basically had the ability of turning the entire Digital World into goo…" continued Ornyxmon. The goat walked to the last picture. Glowing digimon were firing one last salvo into the beast, which seemed to have been pushed through the circle with a huge golden dragon. "The Harmonious Ones merged their powers and sent the digimon that had survived to a dream dimension and tried to contain the dragon's Hazard power. The dragon could not contain his own power and erupted into full blown Hazard…."
"EMC2," murmured Brendan quietly. He looked at picture quietly. "And if that dragon was that big…"
"Like I said, this is the last scrap of the original Digital World, everything else was drawn from digital limbo and other Digital Worlds…" said Ornyxmon. The goat looked at the picture, "Even as the great and powerful Huanglongmon, the Harmonious Ones barely escaped alive from the encounter."
"Who was this fiend?" asked Amy quietly. Ornyxmon almost smiled at the question. The general looked at Lucemon.
"Yeah who could be so powerful that all they left behind was this little town?" asked Jason as he looked over the mural.
"Oh, I think you'd be surprised," said Ornyxmon quietly. The goat's eyes looked up at the children. "You could say that he's very close to you…"
"Spit it out!" growled Steven. He looked at the goat in annoyance. "If you haven't notice we have crests to gather, unless this was your plan…to stall us until reinforcements come!"
"Oh no…" Ornyxmon said quietly. "The digimon that did this is none other than…"
"Me," said Lucemon quietly.
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AN:
Yeah I know it's a big gap between the spoiler warning and the story but, I didn't want you guys hurt. Thanks to Alforce you've stuck through this kind of writer's block, which I think I've started to work out of, though I am slightly worried that I may come off as too close to Adventure on the ending of this arc which you know, I basically didn't like this arc, I mean just I didn't like it in Digimon and I don't like it here…but that's that.
Those that read this Chapter, please don't be jackanapes and be all I can't believe… did that and then that the and stuff and then with the plan to ….man! Yeah because you'll not only be being a total dick wad to me, but to the rest of the readers so please, don't do it! OR I WILL GET PISSED!